O. L. Dickeson
	
O. L. Dickeson was elected vice-president and general manager of White Pass & Yukon Route on 1 May 1911. Close Brothers and Company were major backers for White Pass. Dickeson was only in the country a short time before he started collecting data on properties in the Whitehorse Copper Belt with an interest in reopening the mines. Operations on the properties were closed down in 1910.((J. W. McLean, “Great Copper Fields of Yukon.” //The Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 17 August 1913.)) Byron White and Associates, located in Spokane, Washington was the owner of the Yukon-Pueblo Mining Company at Whitehorse in 1910. Spokane-based Atlas Mining Company purchased the entire holdings for $500,000. The local newspaper commented that the bulk of the purchase money would remain outside the Yukon.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 15 April 1910.)) R.K. Neill, president of the Atlas Mining Company, visited Whitehorse in August 1910 and was met by general manager W.D. Greenbough, also a heavy stockholder. Neill commented that the recent government charge of two and a half percent royalty on the gross output of copper would make mining prohibitive.((//The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 5 August 1910.))\\
	
The Atlas Mining Company was re-organized in the spring of 1912 with Close Brothers and Company, financial agents for Chicago and London money men, holding most of the stock. A long-term lease was negotiated on the Pueblo property and options were arranged for five other properties near Pueblo. Operations at the mine began in April 1912, and O. L. Dickeson was elected president late in the fall. Atlas was the biggest shipper of copper from the Whitehorse Copper Belt in 1913. In the first year of operation, April 1912 to April 1913, 65,000 tons of copper ore at an average of $10 a ton, were shipped to the Tacoma smelter. The mine’s average output of 200 tons per day demonstrated the feasibility of winter mining. Three thousand feet of diamond drilling to the ore body was completed by 14 July. Six hundred and seventy feet of drifting on the 200-foot level was almost all inside the ore body.((J. W. McLean, “Great Copper Fields of Yukon.” //The Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 17 August 1913.))